National Novel Writing Month and a Literary Gargoyle

November is National Novel Writing Month, aka NaNoWriMo, that time of year when crazy people such as myself sign up to write a 50,000 word novel in a month.

Here's a New York City gargoyle who's a writer himself. Holding a quill pen and with a mischievous grin on his face, this gargoyle sits just above the first floor of the Britannia apartment building in New York.

And here are a couple NaNoWriMo-inspired shots.

p.s. Those are Juliet Blackwell's mystery novels Sherlock Snoopy is walking in front of. If you haven't read her books, you're missing out. 

--Gigi

Happy Halloween & NaNoWriMo Eve

When I lived in a small apartment in the Inner Sunset neighborhood of San Francisco, I had a view of a striking hill outside my living room window. Shortly after moving into the apartment, it was time for National Novel Writing Month, which begins the day after Halloween. That year, I experienced my most successful NaNoWriMo. I think my creative ideas were due in part to that hill. The apartment was small enough that I didn't have my own office in which to write, so I brought my laptop to the window seat overlooking the hill. I didn't know the name of it at the time (it's Grand View Park) so we christened it "Druid Hill." Quite fitting, I think. It was often covered in fog or lit up by a dramatic sky. I much prefer my current study, but I miss that hill.